Clothes-drier



No. 6|6,880. Patented Jan. 3, |899. J. H. BEARDSWBTH.

CLOTHES DRIER.

(Application led Feb. 6, 1897.)

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JAMES II. BEARDSWORTH, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS. A

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,880, dated January 3, 1899.

Application filed February 6, 1897. Serial No. 622,258. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES I-I. BEARDS- WORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare thel following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and'use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-driers; and the object of the same is to provide a clothes-drier for house use, the same being adapted for attachment to the wall out of the way, and when desired for use may be lowered to receive the clothes and then raised to any desired posit-ion for drying the same.

The invention consists of the details of construction hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofl this specification, Figure l is a view of my device in the lowered position. Fig. 2 is a view of the same when elevated. Fig. 3

is a view of the drier when closed; and Fig. t

is a section through one of the recesses of the securing-head, showing the clothes-receiving arm positioned therein.

Referring now to said drawings, l indicates the frame, which is closed at one end and adapted to be attached to the wall by screws orother similar devices. The inner sides of the side pieces 2 of the frame are provided with grooves 3, and adapted to slide in this frame l is the standard 4:, the anges 5 of the said standard taking the grooves 3 of the frame.

The side pieces Qare secured together and braced by the straps 2', which are attached on the rear sides of said side pieces. Secured to the upper end of the standard 4c is a circular head 6, which is composed of the concentric semicircular walls 7 and 8, which are connected by the downwardly-curved partitions 0. These partitions 9 divide the head into a number of recesses lO. The clothes-receiving arms 9 are adapted to depend vertically through the recesses 10, when closed, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the enlargements l0' on the behind the wall 8 of the head when the arms are positioned for receiving the clothes, the lower edge of the arm resting upon the lower wall 7 of the head, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

The arms are thus prevented from being removed from the head by the engagement of the pins with the upper wall and are supported by the lower wall of the head. The head is attached to the standard by screws passing through the perforated lugs ll',

formedon the rear face of the head.

The pulleys ll are mounted at the upper end of the frame I, and the upper end of the standard 3 is provided with a pulley 12. A rope 13 is secured at one end of the standard 3 and passed around the pulleys 1l and l2, as illustrated. The lower end of this rope is adapted to be wound upon the hook 14: at the lower end of the frame l.

The standard is provided at its lower end upon its front face with the finger-hold 1', by means of which the standard may be moved by the hand. As illustrated in Fig. l, when not desired for use the standard and the clothes-receiving arms may be elevated to the top of the frame and out of the way. AWhen it is desired to use the device, the standard is lowered and the clothes placed on the clothes-receiving arms, when the same may be raised to any desired position. When not in use, the arms may be folded, as illustrated Iin Fig. 3.

From the above description it will be seen that I have produced a very simple and convenient device for drying clothes, whereby the clothes may be raised to the top of the room, where a greater amount of heat is always present, whereby the drying is much IOO for connecting the free ends of the side pieces and holding them in fixed relation, a standard having flanges arranged to Work in the grooves in the side pieces and to strike the cross-piece when raised to its extreme position, a head attached t0 the standard for supporting the clothes-receiving arms, the head comprising a single casting having two semieircular concentric Walls which are connected by partitions,clothes-receivin g arms mounted on the head between the partitions, a pin on each arm to prevent its remova1,a pulley se- In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib- 1n g Witnesses.

JAMES H. BEARDSVORTH.

Witnesses:

WILHELM C. FISCHER, JOHN C. BEARDsWoRTI-L 

